A/N: I am bad at writing Heists, I will probably update this chapter later to make it more interesting without changing the main parts, do share your ideas if you have any.

"You and Wormy are lucky to win those tickets. You should have told me and Moony too, then we might have won as well," exclaimed Sirius as James stood by the fireplace to floo to Peter's house.

"We entered in it for fun, we didn't expect to win. Anyway see you soon," said James trying to keep his smile at its place before entering the fireplace.

"There you are, Dum-, I mean the driver will be here soon," said Peter, his mother behind him, she got up and greeted James. Mr Pettigrew too arrived in the room and greeted James happily, he always admired James for his quidditch skills, he was excellent at quidditch analytics just like Peter.

"Nice seeing you too, Mr and Mrs Pettigrew," said James hugging them.

"Bye mum and dad, I will see you soon," said Peter and he and James exited the house. "Shit, Prongs I am very nervous."

"Me too, Wormy. But, I have something for us. . . the lucky potion, take a mouthful it will last till our work," and he gave him the small bottle, which Peter took a mouthful, James then did the same. Soon, a Pontiac Grand AM car stopped in front of them and a suited man, with a white beard and glasses beamed at them and signalled them to sit inside.

"You are cool, Professor," exclaimed James.

"I know that," winked Albus as the car took off and was soon in the air, Pete and James gasped. The driver's seat rotated 180 so, Albus was facing them, they go through the plan one more time.

"Here, Professor, it's Felix Felicis, you should drink it, for luck," said James offering him the bottle.

"I don't rely on luck that much, my luck, is flying outside, Fawkes," said Albus. "And now the thing we are looking for is a diary, a very important diary."

"Just a diary?" asked James and Peter shocked.

"It belongs to Voldemort, he has asked to protect it, so it must be and it is important, we need it, it might be the key to defeating him." The others two nodded.

The three of them stood at a great distance from the manor looking at it.

"There's an anti-intruder jinx around the place," said Dumbledore.

"Wormy, transform and go, you will not be affected, then once inside remove the jinx, and return here," commanded James. Peter transformed into a rat and after 20 minutes he returned and turned back to Peter. Dumbledore examined again and then smiled.

"The jinx has been removed, well done Peter," said Dumbledore.

"There are about 4 people in the entrance area, but they all had drinks in their hands and were laughing and talking," reported Pete.

They all under the disillusionment charm entered the manor, and after finding an empty space, they stopped.

"Peter, time for plan two, take help of smell to go there and cause some mayhem," said James, Peter grinned before turning into an invisible rat, and started moving, after 10 minutes he reached the kitchens, there was a house elf, crying and cleaning the utensils.

"Dobby, is a bad house elf, Dobby's master hit him, soup cold, Master bad. . . . no bad Dobby, he insulted his master, Dobby bad," he was saying and hitting his head on the wall.

Pete moved behind a shelf and transformed into a boy, slowly he took out his wand flicked it several times, and then instantly turned back into a rat, the moment he exited the kitchen, several utensils started falling on the grounds making more noise than usual, foods were all lifted in the air and thrown around the room, the table started jumping and making defeating noise. Many people rushed towards the kitchen as Pete made his way into a pipe and towards the next location, he could hear the people shouting at Dobby, he felt bad for him but was relieved that Dobby was there otherwise it would have looked suspicious.

The moment James and Dumbledore heard the noises they instantly started moving toward the first location out of the three. It was down in the west part of the building, moving down the stairs, there were no lights here, it looks like a place where prisoners were held and tortured.
James followed Dumbledore inside the room, there were three people tied in chains and were all unconscious. Dumbledore took out his wand and started chattering something under his breath, it was inaudible to even James, who was standing just beside the professor. Dumbledore turned towards him and shook his head, the diary was not there.

"What about them?" asked James in a whisper, pointing at three men. Dumbledore shook his head.

"Diary more important, we can send help for them later," whispered Dumbledore. James thought about it a moment, he didn't want to leave these people behind, they were all injured, tortured by their looks, but he had no choice.

Peter exited the pipe, he was now in front of the main office of the manor, there was enough gap beneath the door for him, he entered the room, he felt a jinx being placed there to prevent people from entering, but he was a rat was able to pass it. The room was big, there was a desk and a chair behind it, the room had drawers, he searched all of them, there was nothing there, so, he began searching for the keys so that they could open the next targeted room silently without alerting anyone, but after searching each and every corner he couldn't find the keys.

Then the door opened and a man with blonde hair entered the room, the rat watched the way the man was walking, he was drunk. Lucius sat on the chair took out a cigarette from the drawer of the table, and then began looking for a lighter but he couldn't find it in his drawer he swore loudly, the lighter in his hand was shaking, and he was heavily drunk. He stood up and started taking out things from his coat, to check if it was lighter, and then put them back. Finally, he found the lighter, now he took off his coat and hunger it beside his chair, and then after lighting his cigar, he began smoking.

Peter had seen the keys when he had taken them out, it was in the right pocket of his coat. The rat moved behind the chair and climbed it, he entered the right pocket, and there it was the key, he gripped it in between his teeth and started moving out while descending he landed loudly on the floor, and the keys hit the floor making noise, he immediately dragged the keys with himself beneath the table. Lucius looked around to find nothing and then cursed his house elf for disturbing his pleasure moments.

The rat slowly dragged the keys out of the office and then re-entered the pipes now going to meet James and Dumbledore at their next spot, the south wing.

Peter should have been here by now, thought James, they were standing outside the south wing door, it was magically locked and opening it without its keys will raise an alarm. James stood there invisible, and soon clattering of metal reached their ears, and a bunch of keys was being dragged from a hole in the wall, soon the keys were raised in the air and towards Dumbledore, who smiled and took it.

"My smell senses need more credit than I give them," said Peter.

"They surely do," said James as Dumbledore unlocked the door, and they entered inside, it was a circular room with a lot of things placed on the shelves. Most of the things were creepy.

"They are all dark artefacts, a curse is placed on the shelves, I will try to remove it but it might make noise," said Dumbledore.

"Okay time for the distraction part 2," said James, and he took out the pager and wrote '2' on it, and send it. "Fabian will receive the message."

Soon loud music and fireworks began from the houses near the manor where muggles lived.

Dumbledore after 20 minutes of hard work removed the curses and began examining everything.

"There are several dark items but not the diary," grimaced Dumbledore.

"Very well then to Center Wing it is," said James.

"We will have to start the main distraction now, as there are 3 death eaters around that place," reported Peter. James nodded.

"But that will make escaping hard, so Pete you have to go and put fire on the gardens, or we will not be able to escape, and then Dumbledore will put back the intruder jinx and we will escape," said James, and then took out the pager again writing 'F' and sending it.

After 20 minutes they could hear the voices of worried Deat Eaters, it means there another office has been raided by the Aurors led by Mad-Eye Moody.

The three of them moved towards the centre of the Manor, the loud noise of firecrackers and music was coming, and Peter separated from them to return the keys to the original position and then to wait for their signal and fire the gardens, this part was thought by James at Shrieking Shack.

James and Dumbledore moved slowly to the centre, there were 2 death eaters, drunk and talking about who had more hairs, the third had left them to help the death eaters in fighting the Aurors, they moved past the two death eaters quietly and began moving down the stairs, there was a door, James stood behind Dumbledore as he opened the door, there were a lot of jinxes and curses on them. Dumbledore chuckled as he removed them,

"They were not going to open this room for a long time, they have placed many jinxes on them, it is a fully protected room, but we are lucky to have me, or else it would have taken 10 hours to remove all the curses, even Peter couldn't have entered as a rat."

The door opened and they stepped in, both began invisible again. It was an empty room but it send chills down James' spine, he was about to take another step in, when Dumbledore put his hand on his shoulder clutching it hard to stop him.

"This room has more dark enchantment protecting it, we have to be very careful, each step should be taken with care, there are things hidden here."Dumbledore began performing complex magic, the spells which he was speaking were strange and hard to catch on, after 10 minutes things started appearing in the room, in the mirror case on the front wall was a red cover diary.

"There are dark curses on the floor and in the air, you take one step at and get the diary, while I will hold off the curses from touching you," said Dumbledore. He then took out a page from his robes and placed his wand on it, it turned into a diary just like the one in the case, " Replace that one with this."

James took the fake diary and put a step forward, he could feel the resistance in the air, pushing him back, he looked back, Dumbledore's wand was moving in the air, his face in concentration, his lips moving fast, James took another step forward more resistance, the pain was starting to develop in his leg but he continued moving forward, each step was becoming heavier and heavier, and the force pushing him backwards was increasing. When he was halfway through the room, voices, strange voices started speaking, ordering him to run away or die, then Dumbledore's voice spoke in his brain asking him to keep moving and not focus on the voices.

His eyelids were starting to feel heavier, 'sleep, sleep, get rid of the pain and suffering sleep' said a soft voice, a very tempting voice. James stood in his place not moving, tempted to close his eyes and sleep but then Dumbledore's voice spoke again, 'Ben gave his life to pass the message about the diary to me, he died so that we could defeat Voldemort, think about Uncle Ben's sacrifice.' James was brought to reality again, he could feel the pain but the mention of his uncle had burned a fire within him, he took another step forward, very cold air was now hitting him, pushing him back, but he didn't stopped and continued walking.

Voices and cries of many people started ringing in his brain, pain arose in his chest as the people cried in pain. James shook his head and took another step forward, horrible things started appearing around him, the room was replaced into a grave, a man's body was cut in half through the waist, and blood was flowing from him, as he cried to get back to normal, a woman whose upper head was cut opened begged to James to leave, a child came forward, he was a normal child 5 years old, a beautiful child, then blood started coming from his eyes, ears mouth, nose, his skin started turning black.

"You return back or I will die, he will kill me, go back, go back or I will die," begged the boy, blood now covering him.

James stood frozen as he watched the boy in horror and then a snake came out of nowhere a Hyena came out and attacked the boy, eating it mercilessly, the child just looked at James and spoke.

" You killed me, now take one step forward and you will die just like this," said the child and then the Hyena turned into a snake and engulfed the boy.

"NO!" shouted James but the voice didn't leave his throat, the snake was now watching James with hungry eyes.

'Keeping moving James, it's an illusion' came the voice of Dumbledore. James nodded and started moving but the snake didn't disappear, neither did the man or the woman, instead, more horrible people all on the verge of death started appearing, all horrible looking and James' inside was frozen at this sight, but he moved towards the diary, he opened the case.

Then suddenly a beautiful girl appeared in the room, as everyone else disappeared, there were three more men there, James ignored them and took out the fake diary, placing it in place of the original one, he took hold of the original diary, it was shaking, he closed the case and turned.

He saw the girl's appearance become more clear and so did the appearance of the three men, but they all had wands out, they started duelling, James watched them as he began walking back, his entire body was aching now, and the diary was shaking violently in his hands, but he gripped it tighter, he opened it as he put another step forward, it was empty, with only one name written on it:
TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE

James then looked up at Dumbledore, whose face was white, he was looking at the 4 people, James looked at them too, each of them fighting each other, he recognized one man, it was. . . it was a young version of Dumbledore, and the other small man was looking just like Dumbledore, he must be Aberforth, they were duelling and then the third man's spell hit the girl, she shrieked and fell to the ground dead.

The real Dumbledore let out a cry as he watched it, his focus broke and then suddenly a piercing pain hit James, the diary which was half opened in his hand started shaking more violently. James felt as if he was engulfed by someone, the snake appeared out of nowhere, he was inside the snake now, and his eyes were forced closed.

He heard a girl crying and opened his eyes. James was in a girl's bathroom, it looked like the bathrooms in Hogwarts, there was some movement behind him, he turned and saw a big snake there, another handsome boy was standing there, but neither the snake nor the other boy noticed James. The boy hissed and James saw the girl opening the door and then looking out, the snake in front of her, both of their eyes met, and the girl dropped dead on the ground but was floating, the girl looked familiar to James, he has seen her somewhere.

The boy laughed, he let out a hiss, and the snake turned towards the sink, the boy hissed again, one tap on the sink glowed and the sink moved out of sight, leaving a large pipe exposed, and the snake entered into it, then the sink moved back to its original position, closing the pipe. The boy smirked, then took out a diary, just like the one James has just seen, and then the boy started muttering something, then placed his wand on the girl's body than to his than to the diary, a black substance came out from the boy, who gasped and clutched his heart, his eyes watery in pain, and then the black substance entered the diary, which started shaking violently before settling.

"James"

"James" called a voice, and James was back in the room, the diary was opened and was clutched in his chest, near his heart. Dumbledore was looking pale, his hands shaking.

James tried to remove the diary from his chest but it was forced to stick there, but James finally managed to remove it from his chest, and clutched it tight in his hands and closed it, his body relaxed a little, and he moved towards Dumbledore.

Each step back was just as hard as before, he looked at his hands, it had many black spots there, his shirt, where the diary had been there was burned, and his skin was also burned a little. Something had happened when he was in the vision of that bathroom.

He finally reached Dumbledore, who jerked his head towards the door to motion him to move out and James did so.

Dumbledore followed him out, wands still raised, he then began closing the door and replacing the curses which were there before to avoid suspicion. James however couldn't stand more, his legs gave up and he collapsed on the floor, tears falling out from his eyes, due to both physical and emotional pain.

After replacing the curses, Dumbledore helped James to his feet, took the diary from him and placed it safely in his robes. He then recast the disillusionment charm on both of them.

James was supported by Dumbledore as he let both of them out and up the stairs. He could hear death eaters throwing insults at muggles, he heard one of them telling how one of the firecrackers fell into the garden and the garden started burning.

Dumbledore replaced the anti-intruder jinx, and then amidst the chaos both of them escaped the Manor.
Peter waited for them by the car, they were late, then he heard noises and Peter instantly turned into a rat but relaxed when Dumbledore removed the charm and became visible again. Peter too turned back to the boy. It was now he noticed James, he was looking ill.

Dumbledore tapped on the car and it disappeared and then he took out a pen from his pocket.

"Hold it, it's a portkey," he said, James and Peter did so, and soon they were in Headmaster's office. Dumbledore took out the diary tapped it and then tapped one portrait, it opened and he put the diary in it, and the portrait closed. He then moved his wand at the portrait before turning to the two boys.

Peter was holding up James, his hand was having several black spots, his eyes were red, there was a bruise on his head too, and his chest was burned. Peter too had got some bruises from the fall.

"To the Hospital wing," said Dumbledore and with a flick of his wand, James was on a stretcher.

When James opened his eyes, the sunlight was coming in through the windows. He looked around the room, he was in the hospital wing, at Hogwarts.

"Ah! I see you are awake, how are you feeling James?" asked Dumbledore, he was sitting in a chair beside James' bed.

"Fine, just some aches, why are we here?" asked James.

"I made a mistake tonight, and you had to suffer the consequences. I am sorry for that, I am a human too and old pain stuck with me and I lost control, and put you in danger."

"That girl was Ariana?" asked James

"Yes, it was how she died, another fault of mine," tears filled his eyes, "I am sorry James, you were brave, very brave tonight. But what happened when you were returning, you shrieked in pain and were clutching the diary to your chest, you looked as though you were lost."

"Sir, I saw a strange vision. . " and he told Dumbledore everything.

"We will talk about it later, I would request you not to tell anyone about this, now, I advise you to return home, your parents will be worried. Poppy has said that you are recovered, but take this potion and drink it twice a day, to get rid of those black dots. Also please tell me if you see another such vision."

"Can I tell my friends, sir?"

"And they will be?"

"Sirius, Remus, Peter, Marlene, Mary and Lily."

"They are trustable, but ask them not to tell anyone else,"

"Sure sir."

James returned to Potter's Manor and requested everyone to let him rest. Laying in his bed, he wondered if he was lucky that Dumbledore, gained focus soon or he would have hurt more, physically James was well, but the emotional pain from all the voices and vision was very painful.

Who was Tom Marvolo Riddle? Who was the girl in the vision and who was that boy? He had seen the girl before, he had seen that bathroom too, but he couldn't remember where, it looked like Hogwarts.

Thinking all this he drifted into sleep, the dreams were strange, he saw a woman holding a baby, while some people were burying a lady, and the dream changed James was standing in what appeared to be a cave, and a boy was taking two other kids with him inside, James followed him, and then the handsome boy did something and the other two kids cried in pain.

"James"

"James, dear wake up,"

James jolted awake, his mother was looking at her with concern, and Sirius and Fleamont were behind her.

"What?" he asked.

"You were all sweaty, and continuously shifting and mumbling in sleep. Were you having a nightmare?" asked his mum.

"Yeah, bad dream," smiled James and her mother smiled back.

"Come down, you must be hungry it's evening time," said Euphemia, he nodded.

"You both went to Somerset Party?" gasped Lily, she was angrier than shocked. They were sitting in the common room, having returned just today.

"Yes, these bastards went there, but aren't telling what happened? And Prongs here is having nightmares since then," said Sirius.

"Padfoot," barked James.

"It's truth, Euphemia was getting all worried, and I am worried too, you have looked lost since you returned," said Sirius.

"Let's talk about quidditch," said Peter.

"Don't try to change the topic, and why are you both not talking about Somerset Party? What happened?" asked Remus.

"Nothing happened," said James.

"You are lying," said Marls.

"Dementor attacked, okay?" shouted Peter. Everyone went silent and looked at him wide-eyed, "Dumbledore somehow reached there and prevented any damage, but Prongs got stuck a little, Dumbledore asked not to tell anyone."

James sighed in relief. While everyone was shocked, Peter answered their queries and James sat silently on the couch, taking out the walkman and listening to 'Blackbird by The Beatles'.

Lily sat beside him and took one of the earbuds from him and put it in her ears.

"You could have told me that you were going to that party, why didn't you?" James sighed again and looked at the fire.

"I didn't know until the last day," replied James.

"You said you had a bad feeling about new year's eve and . . ."

"Lily, can you come here for a moment?" said Remus.

"Yes," replied Lily, then whispered to James, "Meet me on the balcony at 11."

"We have to make up for 8 days," grinned James, and Lily's cheek flushed, and then she left, James saw her talking to Sirius and Remus. The three of them turned and looked at him before continuing to talk again.

"Look. don't get mad but is there something going on between you and Prongs?" asked Remus.

"No, why would you ask that, we are just close friends," replied Lily.

"Okay, thanks, you can go now," said Remus.

"Why did you ask that?" asked Lily.

"We just wanted to know, no other reason," replied Remus.

"Let's go Moony we have pranks to plan," said Sirius, pulling Remus along with him out of the portrait hole. "So, one thing is clear, now just we have selected the best. He doesn't like Lucy, and Keeva, so what about Becky Glen?"

"No, we will choose someone who is silent and doesn't get into all that fuss," said Remus,

" Fiona McCall?"

"Kathryn Bryce?"

" Alison Ramsay?"

"Amy Glen?" suggested Remus.

"Perfect, she is a Gryffindor, a reserve chaser, a Gobstones player and is quiet and hot."

"Then we will have to talk to her,"

"She is in Gobstones club room, we can meet her now."

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